Privacy double standard.

[BobK]

From Wired.com

Making It Personal
A consumer rights group, upset with the California Assembly's repeated failure to enact financial privacy legislation, is making public its stance on personal privacy. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has posted on the Internet partial Social Security numbers of lawmakers who didn't support the privacy bill. The group was able to buy the numbers on the Internet for $26.

Rather than recognizing that this may, in fact, demonstrate how vulnerable everyone's personal information is, lawmakers are outraged. They say this type of high-pressure lobbying borders on extortion. Lawmakers didn't protest the financial industry's extensive lobbying against the bill, however.

How typical!
The lawmakers worry about their privacy, but not the public's.

 

[Thumper]

What website gave them the social security numbers?

This reminds me of a story Richard Feynman once told... While working in Los Alamos, he became quite adept at picking locks on file cabinets. During one security meeting, he demonstrated how vulnerable the files were to the generals in charge. The result?

A memo went out to all the secretaries in charge of the file cabinets to keep Feynman away from them.